LOVE IN THE MIDDLE OF TRAGEDY
Derby Evening Telegraph, UK
Nov 2 2007
An unconventional love story exploring the aftermath of one of the most
barbaric chapters of 20th-century history – the Armenian genocide –
can be seen at Nottingham Playhouse.
Beast on the Moon, by Richard Kalinoski, explores an issue that is
currently at the centre of a heated row between the United States
and Turkey.
The Playhouse’s artistic director Giles Croft helms this new
production, starring Youssef Kerkour and Karine Bedrossian as the
mismatched couple who must learn to embrace a new world, and Paul
Greenwood (TV’s Rosie) as the enigmatic narrator whose own story
proves to be closely entwined with theirs.
The winner of best play awards in the USA, France and Argentina,
Beast on the Moon runs at Nottingham Playhouse from tonight until
November 17.
An Armenian exile in 1920s Milwaukee, Aram is starting to make his
way as a photographer. Yet his true focus remains the family ripped
from him by the genocide in his native land. He pays to import a young
Armenian girl as his bride but Seta is not the girl whose photograph
Aram was shown. Worse, the legacy of the traumas she has endured
thwarts his desperate bid to reseed his family.
There seems little hope for their marriage.
It takes the intervention of an unlikely young stranger for this
ill-starred couple to begin to overcome the Armenian nightmare and
piece back together their American dream.
The irrepressibly warm-hearted Seta is played by Karine Bedrossian,
whose own mother tongue is Armenian.
Karine’s stage work includes Stripped, Hole in the Heart and Essex
Girls, while on TV she has featured in Life Begins and The Bill.
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